Release Notes

Newest first.

0.3.0 — meeting notes, and a keyboard for Android

The first release that listens to more than you, the first for a phone, and the first for a team. Each item says which platforms it covers.

Meeting notes — macOS 14.4 or later, Pro

When a call opens your microphone, Tiune offers to take notes. Zoom, Teams, Webex, Slack, Discord, FaceTime, WhatsApp and browser calls such as Google Meet. It never starts on its own: the bar asks, and nothing is recorded until you say yes. Turn the offers off with Offer meeting notes in Settings → Privacy.

Both sides of the call. Your microphone is You; the call's audio comes in through macOS's System Audio Recording permission — sound only, not Screen Recording. A red dot shows while notes are recording; stop from the bar or with Stop taking notes in the menu-bar menu. Where Tiune can tell the other voices apart, it splits them; rename any speaker and every line follows.

When it ends, a summary, the key decisions and the action items, with owners from the speaker names, and Redo if you want another pass. Read a meeting in the Original or Translate to English (or another language), always in Latin letters so it works with an English keyboard. Copy as Markdown, Open in ChatGPT and Open in Claude take it elsewhere.

What leaves your Mac depends on your transcription mode. Offline, meeting audio is transcribed on your Mac. On an online mode it goes to Deepgram — meetings don't use ElevenLabs. The summary is written by the same cloud service as cleanup. Tiune never saves the audio, and the transcript stays on your Mac. The details are on the Meeting Notes and Privacy pages.

It's Pro's first "new features first": Plus gets it in 0.4.0.

Android — coming to Google Play

Tiune for Android is a keyboard. A complete one — swipe typing, suggestions, autocorrect, emoji, clipboard — with a Tiune mic key. Tap it in any app and speak. AI cleanup matches about 45 common apps; Roman Urdu is protected from autocorrect; a dictionary key teaches Tiune the word behind your cursor. Sign in with Google, inside the app. Android 9 or later.

It isn't on Google Play yet. When it is, a plan you already have from the desktop or the website works on the phone once you sign in with the same account. The phone doesn't do meeting notes, transformations, history editing or the language gate below, and Free on the phone is English only for now. See Android.

Teams — macOS today

Seats on one bill, $11 a seat a month at launch. Start a team from the app (Settings → Account → See plans → Start a team); from then on the admin console at tiune.app/admin handles seats, invitations, members and usage — counts, never content. Sign in with Microsoft as well as Google and Apple on macOS and Windows. Everyone can turn off Send where you're writing in Settings → Privacy, which stops the app category and the words already in the box being sent with cleanup. The Windows app works but isn't code-signed yet, so organisations should plan on macOS for now. See Teams & Enterprise.

Sync — macOS, Windows and Android, Plus and above

Your vocabulary and your own transformations follow you to every device you sign in on. Changes go up a few seconds after you make them and come down when you open Tiune, when you sign in, and every so often after that; the most recent change wins. See Sync.

Referrals — every platform

Every account has a referral code in Settings → Account. Share it, or a tiune.app/r/ link; your friend gets 20% off their first payment, and you get a month of Pro for each one who subscribes — claim it or bank it, up to 12 a year, or an $11 credit if you're already on Pro. Affiliate and reseller programmes take applications at tiune.app/partners.html. See Referrals & Partners.

Plans in the app — macOS and Windows

Switch plans in the app. Someone already paying is offered Switch to Plus or Switch to Pro, not a second subscription.
Bought on the website? Sign in with the email you paid with and the plan attaches to your account.
A plan change reaches every signed-in app within seconds, the phone included.
Have a code? in the plans takes a referral or partner code.

English stays on your computer — macOS and Windows, Pro

Online, offline backup now keeps English dictation on your computer and sends other languages to the cloud — including a sentence that switches language halfway through, which reaches the cloud whole. It was checked on American, British and Indian English, so an accent isn't mistaken for another language. Online only still sends everything. See Languages & Scripts.

The bar says when the cloud couldn't take a dictation — "cloud unavailable", or "offline" — and that the on-device engine's words were used instead. It used to fall back without a word.

Also new — macOS and Windows unless noted

The bar grows out of the notch. On a MacBook with a notch, the pill widens sideways at the menu bar's height. It stays on the built-in display. (macOS)
Read and edit any past dictation. Double-click a row in Today to open it in the review window; your edit is saved to your history.
Styles for any installed app, not only the ones that happen to be running.
Lists carry on. On Plus and Pro, a list you started in one dictation continues in the next, in the same box. (also Android)
Offline cleanup fails fast. Tiune notices it's offline and stops waiting on the network, instead of making every dictation sit through a timeout. The bar reads "Writing · offline · on-device".
Onboarding works with the arrow keys.

Upgrading

The in-app updater handles it on macOS and Windows. Builds from before 23 July 2026 still need a fresh download from tiune.app.

0.2.2 — the Windows dictation key

A Windows repair release. macOS is unchanged — it ships at this version only because the update feed carries one version number for both platforms.

The Windows dictation key is now Right Ctrl. Right Alt was wrong twice over, and on a US layout only one of the two faults showed. On German, French, Polish, Spanish, Portuguese, Nordic, Turkish and UK-Extended layouts — among others — right Alt is AltGr, the key that types @ € \ { } [ ], so every @ started a dictation. Separately, Windows treats a lone Alt release as "open the window menu", and push-to-talk is always a lone press, so every dictation also tripped Explorer's menu bar, Office's KeyTips and Firefox's menu. Right Ctrl has neither problem structurally: it is never a third-level shift, and it produces ordinary key events no menu rule watches.

If you were on right Alt, Tiune moves you to right Ctrl on first launch — including if you picked it deliberately, because a deliberate pick and the old default are the same stored value. Change it in Settings › Dictation key.

The key is Tiune's alone while Tiune runs. It used to be observed and passed along, so whatever else it meant to Windows still happened. Tiune now consumes it outright — no app, no system shortcut, no shell sees it. The trade-off: that key stops working as a modifier while Tiune is running, so with the default binding, shortcuts struck with the right Ctrl need the left one instead. That is why the default is the right Ctrl and not the left.

Settings warns you if you bind a left-hand modifier, and refuses right Alt on a layout where it is AltGr rather than quietly eating your @.

Onboarding shows you where the key is, behind a "Where is this key?" link — "Right Ctrl" names a key most people have never deliberately pressed. The same screen used to print the raw stored binding, so its largest text read mod:ralt; it now shows the key's name.

0.2.1 — the updater repair

A small release, and almost all of it is one bug.

"Check for updates" now tells you the truth. The button appeared to do nothing. It was in fact checking, finding the update, and downloading it — it just had no way to say so. It waited 2.5 seconds for an answer that only arrives once the whole ~90 MB update has downloaded (about fourteen seconds on a fast connection), so the timeout always won and the verdict was always "Up to date ✓" — including when an update was downloading as you read it. It then wrote that verdict onto a button inside a menu the click had already closed, so nobody saw even the wrong answer.

The check now answers as soon as the release feed does, and distinguishes three things that used to look identical: you're up to date, there's a new version downloading, or the check itself failed.

Updates survive quitting. A downloaded update used to be held in memory while it waited for your go-ahead, so quitting threw the transfer away and the next launch began again at zero. Updates are now written to disk as they arrive, and an interrupted transfer resumes where it stopped instead of starting over.

A real dialog. One card that stays with you through the whole update: the version, the release notes, a live progress bar, and Restart & install when it's verified. Dismissing it never cancels anything — the status line at the bottom of the sidebar keeps tracking the download and becomes the restart button when it's ready. Updates found in the background still never interrupt you.

Security note. Because an update can now sit on disk between sessions, its signature is re-checked immediately before installing rather than trusted from when it arrived. Updates that fail that check are deleted. Superseded downloads are cleaned up instead of accumulating.

0.2.0 — the Windows release

The first release for Windows, the first with paid plans, and the first that can hear you switch languages mid-sentence.

Speak more than one language, in one breath

On Pro, a single sentence can hold more than one language. Start in Urdu, land in English, drop a French phrase in the middle — the whole thing comes out right, in one pass, with no setting to change and nothing to switch between.

This is a Pro capability for a structural reason rather than a commercial one: on-device engines commit to one language per window of audio and cannot revise that choice partway through a sentence. Cloud transcription detects inside the utterance instead, so a sentence is allowed to change its mind.

Write it as decides what the finished text looks like — the language you spoke, the same words in Latin letters, or English. On Pro it defaults to Latin letters, so a mixed sentence lands in one script rather than two. Change it any time in Settings; speech already in Latin letters is untouched either way.

Windows

Tiune runs on Windows: the same bar, the same dictation into any application, from an installer that fetches the Microsoft Visual C++ runtime if your machine doesn't already have it.

Push-to-talk is right Alt there rather than ⌥Space, because Alt+Space has been the window-menu chord on Windows since 1990.

Plans

Dictation stays free, unlimited, and on-device. Plus ($3/mo) adds the AI cleanup pass and transformations. Pro ($11/mo) adds cloud transcription in 90+ languages, and the multilingual single pass above. Both are two months cheaper paid annually. There's an Enterprise plan too.

If you pasted your own API keys into an earlier build, that's gone — the paid features are furnished by us now, and your old keys are removed from your Keychain or Credential Manager the first time 0.2.0 starts.

Tiune writes what you meant

Cleanup used to remove filler and punctuate. It now writes the sentence you were arriving at: say "meet at six, no, maybe five, let's say five" and the text reads "let's meet at five". The shorter text always has to be reachable from your own words by deleting, so nothing is put in your mouth. Set how hard it cuts in Settings — Intent, Tidy, or Off — and take any rewrite back with the undo binding, live for five seconds after Tiune types.

Cleanup that knows where the words are going

An email and a Slack reply want different sentences out of the same speech, so Tiune reads the destination and writes accordingly. It classifies by the shape of the fields around your cursor as well as by the app, so a composer is recognised as one whatever it's called. Only a one-word category ever leaves your machine — never the window title, never the app.

Faster

End-to-end latency is down from five to six and a half seconds to about one second: cloud transcription streams while you speak, cleanup starts during your natural pauses, and the engine is warmed at launch instead of inside your first dictation.

Also new

Transformations — polish, professional, shorter, translate, or your own instruction, each on a keyboard chord that's live only while the capture is still up.
Fragments you can speak into — and end with your ordinary dictation key.
One-button push-to-talk — bind a single held modifier instead of a chord.
A new bundled engine. Tiune Instant is now Parakeet 110m: roughly half the error rate of the engine it replaces, faster, and about the same size.
Import a vocabulary list you already keep, as plain text or CSV.
Insights that say where the time went — which destination takes most of your speaking time, and what kind of work your days read as. Worked out on your own machine, from what's already saved there.
Keep no history — turn transcript saving off entirely in Settings → Privacy, or erase what's saved.
Settings, rebuilt into five panes.

Fixes

Over fifty, most of them reported from real use: text landing with stray spaces or a wrongly lowercased first word, a dictation that pressed Enter and sent itself in a chat window, cleanup dropping or mangling real words, dictated questions ending in a full stop, the multilingual engine quietly translating instead of transcribing, a Windows launch crash, sign-in that couldn't finish its round trip, and microphones that report 16-bit audio failing to open at all.

Upgrading

The in-app updater handles it. Builds from before 23 July 2026 can't auto-update — the signing key was rotated — and need a fresh download from tiune.app.

0.1.0 — the first release

The complete dictation experience on Mac:

Voice dictation anywhere — hold a shortcut, speak, and your words land wherever your cursor is, in any app.
Two speech-recognition engines — Tiune Instant, built in and ready instantly, and Tiune Turbo, a downloadable option for the best possible English accuracy.
Vocabulary learning — Tiune quietly gets better at your names and terms as you correct it, with no extra effort required.
Fragments — a running list for half-formed thoughts, and a safety net for any dictation that couldn't be typed automatically.
Insights — gentle, private observations about how you speak, generated entirely on your own machine.
Sign in with Google or Apple — a one-time step so your vocabulary and corrections follow you everywhere.
Fully offline dictation — once you're signed in, no internet connection is required for everyday use.

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